The much-anticipated Whitney Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, starring Naomi Ackie, has released its first trailer. The singing icon’s most iconic career moments, from the night she was discovered by renowned record executive Clive Davis to her unforgettable, Earth-shifting rendition of the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl, will be brought to the big screen in the two-minute trailer, which gives fans a sneak peek.

On December 21, 2022, the biopic will only be available in theatres. There is no time difference between the UK and the US because the movie opens in theatres simultaneously in both countries.

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Who was Whitney Houston?

An American singer and actor, Whitney Elizabeth Houston, the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston (née Emily Lee Drinkard) and John Russell Houston, Jr., and cousin of singer Dionne Warwick, was born into a musical family on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey.

When she was just a young child, she started singing in the choir at The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she grew up. By the time she was 15 years old, she had a professional singing career and was singing backing vocals with her mother on Chaka Khan’s 1978 hit, I’m Every Woman. She later provided backing vocals for Jermaine Jackson, Lou Rawls, and her mother in addition to working briefly as a model in 1981, when she was featured on the cover of the magazine, Seventeen.

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Houston made her acting debut in The Bodyguard in 1992, the same year she married singer, Bobby Brown. The movie featured Houston’s rendition of Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You, which peaked at number one for 14 weeks. Houston took home the Grammys‘ top honors for album of the year, the record of the year, and best female pop vocal performance that year thanks to the film’s soundtrack. She continued acting in the middle of the 1990s, appearing in movies like The Preacher’s Wife (1996) and Waiting to Exhale (1995), both of which gave her hit singles on the soundtrack.

Houston died of a drug-related accidental drowning on February 11, 2012. She was only 48 years old at the time. Fans are anticipating the release of her biopic, which also stars Stanley Tucci and Ashton Sanders.